..., respectively. The urine bupivacaine concentration was 11.4 mg/L. The cause of death was attributed to bupivacaine intoxication and the manner of death was accidental. KEYWORDS: forensic science, toxicology, bupivacaine, toxicity Bupivacaine (Marcaine) is a local anesthetic that is related structurally...

... metabolic disturbances such as hypoglycemia and ketoacidosis. 17 02 2003 14 02 2003 01 07 2003 forensic science alcohol alcoholism ethanol poisoning deaths toxicity References Schulz   M , Schmolot   A . Therapeutic and toxic blood concentrations of more than 500...

... drug and non-drug related deaths were categorized to deter-mine a postmortem therapeutic and toxic range. Therapeutic citalopram concentrations for blood, bile, liver, and vitreous humour ranged to 0.4 mg/L, 2.1 mg/l, 6.6 mg/kg, and 0.2 mg/L, respectively. In one potentially fatal response...

... that the narcosis and respiratory depression were due to the direct effect of DCM on the central nervous system. The accidental death was attributed to improper ventilation of vapors in the working area. 24 05 2000 21 06 2000 21 06 2000 forensic science dichloromethane toxicity...

...RE Mittleman, M.D.; WL Hearn, Ph.D.; GW Hime, M.S. Xylazine is a veterinary sedative, analgesic or general anesthetic. Its pharmaceutical action results in sympathetic discharge via stimulation of alpha-2-adrenoceptors. In humans, toxicity consists of central nervous system depression, bradycardia...

... be a consequence of long term cocaine use. Cardiac alterations may explain why equal blood cocaine concentrations may be lethal in some cases and innocuous in others, (4) Isolated measurements of postmortem cocaine and BE blood concentrations cannot be used to assess, or predict toxicity. References...

...RL Hauser, Ph.D.; RB McKeever, B.S.; J Krause-Singh, B.S.; JA Elverum, B.S. Many coatings and adhesives have components that are flammable and/or have toxic hazard. When such materials are associated with personal or property injury leading to litigation, there is often the question as to magnitude...

... thorough toxicological examination. No significant anatomical pathology was found at autopsy. All deaths gave concentrations of oxycodone in femoral blood higher than expected following normal therapeutic use. In three cases no other drug in toxic concentrations was detected. Two cases involved...

... 7.0 to 320 mg/kg. Two cases associated with clomipramine toxicity were clearly differentiated from other cases by the analysis of liver. The concentrations of clomipramine in these two cases were 3.3 and 1.8 mg/L in blood, and 280 and 320 mg/kg in liver. The liver concentrations were 10 to 30 fold...

...RH Goldsmith, Ph.D. The discovery of dulcin, the second synthetic sweetener, has been traced to the work of J. Berlinerblau. Early studies of this sweetener revealed a very effective sweetener that showed toxicity at high doses. Dulcin never achieved great recognition nor usage but was utilized...